Lord of Ming Dynasty

The French were sent away, and there were 4000 fewer people in the territory. The previous battle with the British and the French lost more than 3000 people, and now there are 4000 fewer people. The New Qin Empire with nearly 2 people lost nearly 7000 people at once. Population, if you count the more than 600 people taken away by Wen Ruxin and the others, there will be more than 1 people left in the territory. In fact, including the captives and slaves, the tribe's population is only 1 With a population of 3000, less than 8000 troops can fight.

After this battle, the population of the New Qin Empire will decrease drastically.

Fortunately, according to Li Ya's estimate, the population of more than 6000 Han people will lose a few hundred people at most, and the proportion of the Han population has increased.

But without ships, how could so many Han people survive?

Without the protection of battleships, as soon as the British blocked the port, they went elsewhere.

When the fleet led by Molin attacked the enemy with shore artillery, it was not without losses. When the enemy rushed over frantically, whether it was the steam engine team or the sail warship in front, they all fired wildly to resist the enemy's attack and cause them losses. It was seven or eight British [-]-ton steam engine warships that rushed in and were about to outflank them. They directly used salvo firepower to destroy several sailing warships sitting on the beach, and then the firepower on the other side damaged several ships. Thousand-ton steam engine warships, and some rushed directly to the beachhead, ran aground and attacked the sailing warships with artillery, and even fired at the artillery positions on the other side of the breakwater dam.

Although the final data has not been counted, Li Ya can also see from the telescope that the fleet of sailing battleships has suffered a lot of losses, and steam engine battleships have also suffered losses. In the second-level fleet of about thirty ships, only a dozen steam engine battleships can survive in the end. , if it is good, add a few large-tonnage sailing warships.

Now the battle is not over.

The fleet led by Mo Lin, who was chasing the enemy's fleeing fleet, was still threatened by the enemy's blocking warships.

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Although the two suffered heavy losses in the fight, when Mo Lin, whose face was soaked in soot and seawater, appeared at the entrance of the camp's gathering hall, the news he brought was good.

"Boss, we have completely defeated the British fleet this time, captured the enemy's Colonel Thomas and Major Hawkins, as well as several British naval officers and army officers, and captured a total of eleven enemy steam engine battleships with various wounds. And five enemy sail warships of more than [-] tons."

Wu Kejing was playing with a brush, raised his head and asked, "What about our losses?"

Mo Lin's face darkened in an instant, and he was a little embarrassed. Li Ya smiled and said: "No matter how much the loss is, in short, we have resisted the enemy's stormy attack this time. At the beginning, when the fleet just came into contact, I saw the enemy The scene of the group of sailing warships rushing up to beat you violently, even if you are steam engine warships blocking the enemy and blocking the enemy with the same fierce artillery fire, the enemy's sailing warships are still more flexible than you, and their firepower is not inferior to yours. Give you a heavy blow, even me I saw that several enemy warships broke through your defenses, but were blocked by the salvo firepower of our [-]-ton sailing warships behind."

He nodded with a smile, and said with certainty: "After all, our strength is limited. When fighting the French fleet, our fleet is not as strong as the French fleet, and all our warships are not as strong as the French fleet. Excellent, now you are blocking the enemy's professional colonial fleet with the same number of warships that are less than the enemy's fleet, and even more unbearable than the enemy's warships. It can be said that you have just got rid of the armed merchant ships to block the enemy's professional colonial fleet."

After a pause, Li Ya said in a calm tone: "At least we haven't been defeated. As long as we haven't failed, we have hope of surviving. Let's talk about our losses, so that we can count in our hearts."

"Well, yes, leader, our loss is a bit big. Although we have the support of the entire Xianju Town fort artillery, as well as the shore artillery support, we still lost to the British in terms of firepower and combat power. Out of the 31 warships that went to battle, eleven of the sailboats came back and eight of the steamships returned. That is to say, under the great advantage, when the enemy was beaten and had no chance to counterattack, they still lost eleven warships.

But in general, we kept the most elite combat power steam engine ships and came back with eight relatively large tonnages, ranging from 800 tons to 900 tons, and two of them were 30 tons during the period.Personnel loss: We went to battle with a total of [-] people, and returned [-] people, losing [-] troops.Another five hundred troops were wounded, and some about [-] were missing. "

Wu Kejing silently calculated, and then said: "We returned eight ships from the last naval battle with the French, and three of them suffered serious losses and had to be demolished. One was seriously injured and may not be able to be completely repaired, or the repair time and difficulty are very long. It can only be demolished and tuned. Even the steam engine flagship last time was seriously damaged, and it was hit at an important keel position under the waterline. Now, there are still three remaining warships lying on our berth, two of which have a tonnage of [-] tons The steam engine battleship, the flagship of the leader of Sa Lei, the sailing battleship Jinhua.

In addition to our remaining eight steam engine battleships this time, according to the meaning of Chief Molin, those eight ships still have the ability to continue fighting at least, so it is easy to say, we will put these battleships on the berth immediately, and then proceed With simple repairs, we can continue to fight and maintain the number of ships in our fleet to deter the enemy. "

Mo Lin nodded, "Boss Wu is right. Among the enemy's flagships and steam engine warships captured, about five of them can continue to be used without major repairs. In this case, we will have thirteen ships." The steam engine battleship can continue to fight.

I suggest that some battleships with very small damages that can be repaired within a day or two be put on the slipway first. There are about four such warships, one of the enemy and three of ours. After three days, these four of ours will be You can sail out to sea.

In the past few days, we will first defend the four small islands we have received. Although they are a little far away from us, they can be used as guard posts for us to defend against the enemy attacking us from three sides on the other peninsula. We can place one on each small island. A fast small wooden boat of dozens of tons, within a few hours at most, we can receive news of the enemy attacking our fleet or other enemies.

The remaining ships are self-repairing some small problems that can be solved by their own hands in the port, such as inside the cabin, outside the hull, and removing some damaged hull plates from the destroyed parts, and then replacing the ship plates, so as to repair After that, there will be at least three warships that can follow the fleet to fight.

Within a week, we can have at least seven, and at most eight steam engine warships that can go to battle, and then we can deal with the enemy's sail warships cruising around our peninsula. "

Li Ya waited for them to finish speaking and concluded: "You only counted the steam engine warships, but not the sail warships. Didn't the sail warships come back with eleven? The sail warships are now apart from serious losses. After simple repairs, you will lead them immediately, Molin The three steam engine battleships and the sailing warships that can be used will go out immediately. All the strongholds on our peninsula have been attacked by the enemy. We have almost lost everything on the peninsula except Xianju Town, St. Lawrence Port, neighboring towns, the peninsula and the main island. All the points in the middle except the three port points at the land connection."

"How could this be? Didn't the British all gather here? Why did they attack our other strongholds? If so, the communication ships, supply ships, merchant ships, and armed merchant ships in our other strongholds.

Didn't every port, at least ten ports, lose at least three hundred of us, including all forty ships under three hundred tons?Those are all ships that we produced or refitted the captured French. In this way, if we want to transport supplies and personnel to these places in the future, we can only go by land. "

Wu Kejing shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and explained: "We have no choice. We have to follow everyone's deduction before. This situation can only happen when the British attack in an all-round way and have superior military strength. But there is one thing we can do. Didn't think about it, or thought about it, but no one specifically guarded against him.

Because the French fleet almost wiped out our fleet, none of the sixteen ships could be reused immediately after they came back. The Taizhou sailing warship was repaired and repaired again, and the Jinhua flagship was still rushing to repair it. It took five days. , We only rescued two ships, and in this battle, the Taizhou was also destroyed by the enemy on the berth, and the Jinhua suffered heavy losses.

But they can still fight, and only one of the few warships lying on the berth can be almost repaired.We suffered heavy losses, and with the British army approaching, we were confused, so we did not expect that Wen Ruxin and the others would bring the enemy to attack us. He is more familiar with the terrain and will take advantage of some of our loopholes to understand us. This is us The reason for the heavy losses in this land battle. "

"You don't need to worry about the land, but you have to clean up the sea. If possible, capture the enemy's ships and use them for us. The ships we produce can only be used as communication ships and merchant ships, not warships."

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Send Maureen away.

Li Ya and Wu Kejing returned to Li Ya's residence upstairs.

Standing in the living room on the second floor above Li Yajuyi Hall, leaning on the railing and looking into the distance, across the camp, you can see the raised city wall of Xinxianju Town. If you want to see the scenery of the entire Xianju Town, you have to go to the top of the second floor. If you want to see clearly the deployment of the entire Xianju town inside and outside the city, you can get the three-story, ten-meter-high watchtower on the top of the second floor.

Wu Kejing spoke first, "Although we won the sea battle, we lost the battle on land. Ten strongholds were taken away by the enemy. We almost lost the east of Xianju Town. The British and Their tribal fighters dared to investigate within five miles of our Xianju town.

Tang Yaweng's 1000-man reinforcements needed to penetrate at least three strongholds, and then under the siege of soldiers and horses around the enemy, reach the border at a distance of 25 kilometers to reinforce the mine-sweeping troops. I don't know what is going on now.

Forty small-tonnage transportation and communication ships that lost ten strongholds at sea, we and Swee Tianlei are blind people who are separated from each other and cannot see or communicate with each other. "

Li Ya spread his palms and asked helplessly: "So, we have to send out our last reserve team in Xinxianju Town to fight the British? Now we still have two brigades of Han troops. Before the war, we We knew that we were likely to lose this middle stronghold, so we withdrew most of the Han troops inside, and now Tang Yaweng has transferred our cavalry squadron, Han squad, and the remaining Iliad cavalry troops, as well as Indians and Erie troops. The Attes infantry, and nearly all of our foreign troops, we have very few men and strength now."

Wu Kejing also said helplessly: "The British are too powerful. Their population, military strength, and warships cannot be resisted by us, a small emerging country with a population of only more than 1 who only occupy a peninsula of [-] square kilometers. It’s fishing in a dry marsh, and it’s also dying, I don’t know how many waves we can resist the British attack.”

"In addition, due to several battles, because we have been fighting for two years, our crops and various industries have been in a state of desertion, that is to say, we have relied on seizures for the past two years, and for the first time, we still have There are me for the second time, and Wen Ruxin and the others brought the supplies for the second time to live. Whether it is food, commodities, or living supplies, our local production is pitiful, and the combat supplies are pitiful. The only thing we don’t lack is fish. class."

This is an unchangeable, or helpless, fact. All the people of the New Qin Empire on the adjacent peninsula have honestly eaten sturgeon or other fish for two months. The vomit lobsters that people eat, but these can't make them happy, because their food is in short supply. If they didn't defeat the French, they looted a lot of food from the cellars and farms of the French, as well as military warehouses. Then they will continue to eat more seafood with wild vegetables until they can no longer swallow these things.

Although their population has become smaller and smaller due to two and a half years of continuous war, and may even fall below [-] people, but the food they produce themselves cannot meet the needs of their stomachs.

"We need to have something we can trade with, even if we go to Turkey, or Western Europe, or Eastern Europe, we have to buy grain and dump our goods, or we have to import a batch of grain from the Chinese Empire, but We don't have the money and supplies available to buy food."

"We may be able to sell some logs for shipbuilding. Even if the French are not short, the Turks are not short, and the Spaniards are definitely short, we can try it out in these countries, sell some goods in small quantities, and then buy enough The most important thing is that we still need to find some Han people, our own population is simply not enough.

We now have more than 5000 Han Chinese, of which there are no more than 150 children and only a few dozen teenagers. This is not good for our growth. We do not have a population that can continue. Even if we have the same population as our ally tribe Indians Even worse, the Indians have 380 adult youths, [-] juveniles, [-] children, and even more babies, about [-]. In the not-too-distant future, the population of these people will surpass ours.

The Iliad tribe, because they are more loyal, participated in a lot of previous battles. Originally, the population of 45 was the same as that of the Indians, but they were too good at fighting, so there were more casualties. Their population in the prime of life under the age of 800 was injured 300 people, now the number of people who can participate in combat is no more than 50 people, and their youth population is only 80 people, the juvenile population is only 150 people, and the children and babies are only 50 people. It can be said that if they are used again, they will be wiped out.Their elderly population is [-], and with the addition of women and children, their population tends to be weakened. So far, their entire clan has only [-] people.

There were 600 Indians, and their total casualties were no more than 400, but many descendants would make up [-] warriors in the next two years, and in five years there would be [-] to [-] warriors.This is a worrying change. "

Li Ya knocked on the table, frowning to analyze the internal strength comparison.

Wu Kejing went on to analyze, "Our Han people are only able to fight in three brigades of soldiers. Counting all the old people and young people, counting all the young people, there are 800 people who can fight, and there are 800 people who cannot participate in the battle. The city cannot be carried out, because most of them avoid fighting and dare not even touch their guns. This is the difference between our people and the Indians and Iliads. We pursue ease. Even if they have no choice, they will always remember them The living environment is harsh, and he learned fighting skills from an early age.

If you don't pay attention, a five-year-old Indian can kill an adult warrior with a blowgun smeared with snake venom hiding in a corner. "

The two of them had just analyzed this point. Luo Zuo walked in with a murderous look and smell of blood. When Wen Ruxin led the British into the neighboring town, after fierce resistance, Larry and Wen Ruxin retreated regretfully. Because the Han Chinese cavalry squadron came over, the fighting British and Wen Ruxin's mercenaries could not resist the [-] Han Chinese cavalry who rushed in and slaughtered wantonly with lances and sabers.

In the end, there were only less than 1000 wounded people who could act in the adjacent town. The 800 people stationed inside were almost wiped out, while the [-] troops attacked by the British were led by Wen Ruxin and the others. Three hundred Chinese troops, two hundred French troops, and one hundred British slaves themselves.

Among the 200 British troops, there were 200 Inuit and [-] Newfoundlanders. They led [-] British soldiers, including [-] cavalry, artillery, and infantry. As the battle progressed, Larry and Wen Ruxin took [-] people and retreated to the Winter stronghold. They met with the [-] Newfoundlanders and [-] British who took the Winter stronghold, and the [-] British cavalry from another stronghold, and [-] British cavalry. Human artillery finally stabilized the front line.

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Luo Zuo and the others saved their lives and the neighboring town.And then used shore artillery fire to support the [-] troops led by Tang Yaweng who came to support and captured the Winter stronghold. The port and land in the south of the town did not care about the other left and right ports after that. They went through lakes, grasslands, and forests to support Tianlei and the others.

The defense and deployment of these latter ports were handed over to Luo Zuo.

If the mercenary group said that its assets were the most precious, it would be a group of middle and low-level officers in the original Chinese Empire army that emerged from the wars of the Russian Expeditionary Force to conquer Eastern Europe and most of the European part of the Soviet Union in later generations.

A total of 41 people, leaving out Li Ya, is [-] people, one died in the early stage, three died in the later stage, one was disabled, and this time one was missing in the enemy's attack, most of the others were swept away A small part of Tianlei's front line is in the camp, Xinxianju Town.